Tastes of Justice

Tastes of Justice: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food-art Practices in Asia and Australia is a scholarly and artistic publication, edited by Francis Maravillas, Marnie Badham, Stephen Loo and Madeleine Collie that reveals the diversity of creative and cultural practices in contemporary food art and performances in and between Asia and Australia. It examines the ways in which these practices engender new frameworks for the sensuous, affective, social, and material dimensions of the alimentary in creative practice.

It interleaves scholarly chapters by artists, curators, theorists, and historians with artists’ perspectives in the form of visual essays, recipes, and case studies. In doing so, it offers conceptual framings in art and curatorial practice and critical understandings of lived experience, challenging the normative epistemologies that typically operate between aesthetics and politics in food art and performance.

The book critically engages with themes including enculturation, diaspora, museology, sustainability, activism, and socially engaged art; it reworks notions of collaboration, correspondence, and commensality in human and more-than-human relations. Tastes of Justice offers its readers unique techniques to attend to invisibilities, inequalities, relationalities, and justice, where the politics of food art is inseparable from its aesthetics – from the way it tastes.

Tasting Justice: Singapore

To activate the book we are hosting Tasting Justice a two day event of food, art and politics held at LASALLE College of the Arts. Together we will consider how artists across Asia and Australia use food in their creative practices to address social, political and ecological issues and to rethink the ways we grow, share, and value what and how we eat.